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LAID REPORT. ~~--.~_~M :a COURT 01: KING'S I3ENCII, JULY 14. THE KING V. POLLMANN AND THULE OTHERS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opened this prosecu tion, "which was. that of an indictment against the 'bur DefendantS, for a conspiracy to take a sum of (none) . for retending to procure for a gentleman of the name of Hesse an office under Government, that of - Coast-Waiter in the Customs, taking tOL of. him by way of bargain, conditioned for his depositing, within two days atterwards, the remainder of 20001. in a banker's hands, to be paid into the hands of the Defendants, Francis Lewis Pollmaen and John Keylock, upon the appointment of Mi. Hesse to the above office; but if he was not. appointed to that office within two months frone the time of his making this deposit, he was to have his money back again. These Defendants, requir ing only th t he should' leave with them, in the first instance, ten poauds, which was to be for feited it he did not, within two days, deposit; with the Defendant's banker, the remainder of the premium of 20001. for the procuration of this place through the mediiim of these Defend dants, that is, 29901. but the whole of which was to be restored to him,' if he was not appointed to that office within that period. The 'two Defend-,_ ants, Francis Lewis Pollmann, and John Key lock, had opened an office in Crown-court, Thread needle-street, where they issued an advertisement, expressive of the nature of their business, and which advertisement appeared in a Morning Pa per of the .9th of January last, under the head of " Civil Appointment. -None but principals .to apply. The party must also have the mo ney ready tor an immediate lodgement in a respec table banker's hands; purchase !Wel. income 4t/UL ' per annum e apply/personally, to Messrs Pollmatin and . Keylock ; Crown-court, Threadneedle-street. All letters . must be post-paid."—Morning Post, 9th January, 1809,—Allured by this advertisement, Mr Hesse went to the office of these two defendants, Messrs. Pohlmann and K - eyleck,where he had several interviews With them, and to whom be paid the. 101. and promised the remainder of the 20001. in two days, to be deposited in the hinds of a banker; there to remain for two months, upon Mr. Hesse having for it an accountable receipt, purporting that .it was to remain there for two months, but to be returned to Mr. Hesse if he was not, within that period, ap pointed to a certain office, pursuant to agreement, &c. which money was deposited on.belialf of Mr. Hesse by a friend of his, of thenarne of Harvey; but the appoint • meat was never procured by these defendants for Mr. Hesse the -Whole being a swindling transattion, , and for which this indiament was preferred. But' that was only a part of the case, and a small pal t of it. - The great objet of the prosecution was, to expose to public view and to. beat down these im positioni on the public, and to open the eyes of the public upon such subjeas. It . had been said in the House of Commons, that these were most growing evils. This very office of these Defendants had been mentioned as a place in which these scanda lous abuses were transaaed, and that some of the Lords of the Treasury were concerned in them ; that the peke of Portland himself knew of them ; that he profited to the amount of betWeen , so and 30,0001. a year by these pra&ices. It was to open the eyes of the public to these fads that this prose -lation was instituted. He believed there never was a period in the history a 'this country, in which private individuals pretended to have more, and ac tually possessed less influence with those who had the disposal of offices under Government than the present Moment. He believed there never was a per od in the history of this country, in which cor ?option of Government was so much talked of, and so little of. it praised, as at -.the present moment ; and this trial would be an instance of the truth of that observation. The different parties here were Mr. Pollinann, who appeared to be the leading pretender in this office ; next Mr. Key lock, his. partner, who., managed most of the epistolary contspondence • then a lady of the name of Harvey, who pretended_ to have the • dire& personal -influence with a Gentleman in the Trea sury, by ; whose immediate agency the matter Was' to be accomplished ; the last was Mr. Watson, who was a partner in the house of Messrs.' Sykes, Snaith, and Co. Mansion-house-street ; the latter Gentle man lie did not charge with the same moral guilt as -the" other Defendants,, only, that as a banker, he, had lent the sanaion of his name „to this transac tion, by thing as the banker of these parties, with out which it could not be carried into elle& ; and from the nature of the transa&ions the Attorney- General submitted, that this Gentleman bad, in point of law, incurred the guilt of a conspirator in this case, although when the parties should hereafter appear before the Court, a due discrimination should be made in apportioning•the punishment of each delinquent. Mr. O. G. L. Hesse was first examined, and he gave an history of the whole of this case, minutely detailing the points of which the Attorney-General had given only the outline in his opening. He said he was a barrister by profession ; had praaised in his . profession at the bar for about live years ; had re- , tired for the last five ; was attracted by an advertise-. nient in the Morning Post of the 9th of January last ; which advertisement was read, and was as the Attorney-General had opened. • He went to Crown court, Threadneedle-street, the place described in 'that acherlisement, where he saw the defendants Pollmann and Keylock; but first be wrote a letter to the office, to which he received an answer, which brought him to the office, and where he had many conferences with them both. The letter to Mr. Hesse *a:. dated the' II th January last direaed to him at North Baker4treet, near Portman-square . , in formirrg him, that . the situation to which he re ferred in his letter, in consequence. w of the adver ti,ement in the Morning Post, as filled, but Oat they, Messrs. Pollmann and Keylock, took tae earliest opportunity of informing him of another situation, in the office of Coast-Waiter of the Customs of. the Port. of London ; the. sa 7 lacy of which was 4001. but with emoluments, an.ounted to 6001. a-year, the purchase of which was 20001. to be deposited in -a banker's hands, re questing his early attention to the subject, &c. On the receipt of this letter, Mr. 'Hesse went to this DI&D. On Friday the 7th inst. in the Cloisters at Windsor Cas tle, Mrs.' Aylmer, %Nide of Vice-Admiral Aylmer, aged:4s. • On NVednes(l4 last, in consequence of a tail from ins horse, • Alex,,irdcr Cobham, Esq. of Sninetield, iu the,COUlt- • ay of Berks. On Thursday, Mrs. Davidson, the wife of Mr. John Da vidson, of Cork-street, . I futlington-gardens, - aged 36. 1-este:Ar4.l', in Bloomshury-piacc, lames Hall, Esq. The saute day,. at his house in Great Cumber} L the Most key. 'his Grace the Lord Archbishop' of- Dublin, Primate of I raland, Eaftqf Normanton, &c. &C. His Grace's, decline was rapid ; he kept his bed butAlitee days preViorik to his disolution. As a scholar, a prelate, and a statesman, his Grace stood pre-enutiently high. ilis Grace was• in his 73d year. He is succeeded by his eldest son, Viscount So merton, now Earl. of Normanton. On the 29th of November Jasi, at Bushire, ,m whence he was tiroceeding with the 419bassy to the Cunt of PefS!3 as Peisian and Lath) Translator, Charles Lechrnere Esq., of the Bengal Civil Establi.hinent, aged zi. PRICE OF ATOCKS - YESTERDAY. Rank Stock, India Stock, !v./ k Navy 5 per Cent. 9ei India Bowls, 225, 235. pr. 5 per Cent 1797,t:~ . chc y. Bilis, 9s. i3s. pr. Irish 5 per Cent. • Oinhiuili, 4 per Ccitt. 841 4 ' linperi.zi'3 per Cent. 3 per Ceilt z liett. - 133 I/ Ditto Ann. 3 per Cent. Cons. 66 a Cons. for Openit,g, 69 Bank L. Ann'. z 8 1 LONDON: Printed by RI CHARD HA RR'S. of No. 4, Martlett.court, Bow-street ; And Published by WI I.LI Al( MI (..; ER SCRIPPS, South Mlton.street, Grosvenor. square. At the SUN-OTFIcE, No.' 11 2 ; Strand; where Advertisements, Orders for the Paper, Letters for the Editer, &c. (post-paia), must be addressed, office on the I:.3tii of January. It had all the ap pearance of an Office of businesi, and a person busy . at . the desk among hookS . , &c. There he had a' long conversatio❑ with the .Defendant Pont-114in, who said there would be no doubt of his having the appointment to the office of Cbast-Waiter in the Customs—there were 24 of them—that they w e r e well known-to be of that value, that is, 6001. a-year. " The next question was put by me," said the wit ness, " Through whose vacancy the thing became saleable•?" Pollmann answered, that he could not tell me. The next question I asked was, " Through whose interest it - was to be obtained ?" Pollmann hesitated, but said, " through the interest of . a Lady:" I then asked, " How the money was- to be lodged -?" Upon which Keylock, who. bad not joined in the conversation before,. produced a paper writing, which he took out of the desk (it remained with him) -and said' that was the form of the note their bankers gave them when money was lodged with them for purpOses., I just saw. the paper; it purported , to be signed by Sykes, Snaith, and Co. Ido not.kr.ow it was of the hand-writing of any one of their house ; I asked him "to copy it, which Mr. Keylock did, leaving blanks in it for names, &c. It ran thus--- " I beg to inform you, 'that A. B. of &c: has given us instruclion to pay to you or bearer; the Sum of . on his being appointed to provided such appointment takes place within and with his instredions we are ready to comply." I then asked if the transaction was real ? Keylock said, " Certainly, if you .are ready with the mo ney.". I then asked, if they had many applications tor the situation ?—Keylock answered " Innumera ble." I then asked if Lie would insure to me the refusal ,of it ? Keylock said, " Yes, if you will lodge , a small sum of money." I said, f' 'How much ?" He said, " A few pounds—ten pounds." I said, " I will, if you will give a receipt for it.”— The boy was then, sent for a stamp, which I paid for, and then he gave be a receipt. The receipt was then4ead as follows::—, " Received, January the 13th, 1809, of Mr. L. Hesse, the sum of ten pounds, as part deposit for the purchase of a Coast-waiter's place, which is to be forfeited if . he does not make the deposit up two thousand pounds in two days ; or to be returned, lithe place be not granted in t wo;rnOriths, on our interest. _ _ "•POLLMANN and KEY LOCK." Pollmann then .said "I. will go about it to-day," and came with me to the door, which he opened to me, and said, " You know that if the 20001 deposit is not „completed in two.days, the to!. will be ours," to which I assented. 'The witness then gave an ac count of his calling the next day on the same par ties, and his going with them to the banking-house of Messrs. Sykes, Snaith, and Co: and of.the inter view they had there in a back room with Mr, Wat son, one of the Defendants to this prosecution, and one of the partners of the firth of that banking-house, where and when the remainder of the 2000 i. that is 19901. was paid by Mr. Harvey, a friend of Mr. Hesse, as the consideration money for the purchase of this supposed vacant office ot Coast-Waiter of the Customs of the Port of London, upon which the 'following receipt-was given " Received the i 4 th of J anuary, 1809, of Mr. L. G. Tesse, the sum of 19701. to be applied agreeably to instruc tions contained in hts letter of this date, marked A. For Messrs. Sykes, Shaith, and Co. " Signed by Mr. WATSON." Tire instructions to which this receipt referred were direEted to Messrs. Sykes, Smith, and Co. " You will please to pay to Messrs. Pollmann and Keylock, the sum of 19901.. winch 1 hav,e deposited in your hands upon and if that event does not take place in the course of two months, then you are to repay the 199,1. to the bearer of this receipt, winch you have given me," &c. After which there was a receipt given to tie ness at follows: " Received, the 14th of January, 1809, of Mr. L. Hesse, the sum of 19181. to be applied agreeably to instruaion in his letter of this date. " For Sykes, Snaith, and Co. " JoHN WATSON.,. After this a letter of instruaion was sent to Messrs. Sykes, Snaith and Co. from Mr. Hesse, a s he proved. It was dated the 14th of January, 1809, directed to Messrs. Sykes, Snaith and Co. " You will please to pay Messrs. Pollmann and Key - lock the sum of i,9901, which I have deposited in your hands, upon my being duly appointed a Coast-Waiter in theCustoins, in the Port of London, within two calendar months from the date hereof; and it that event does- not take place in the course of two calendar months, then you are to repay the 1,9901. to bearer licreof, of the receipt of which you have giveu to inc. for the said sum of 1,990." , reciting the receipt. Then stating tins order to be irrevocable. The wit ness then gave an account of the various interviews which he had with these two Defendants, Pollmann and KeyloCk, in which he introduced the scene which he-and these two Defendants had with Mrs. Harvey, 'another of these Defendants. The wit ness, and Mr. Pollmann and Mr. Keylock, the two Defendants, met at the Cannon Coffee-house ; of their going to Mts. Harvey, the other Defend ant, at a house in Crown -street, Westminster, where they had a conversation, in which 'Mrs. Har vey admitted, that she was engaged in this business— said that the Duke of Portland was acqUainted with all these matters—that the Duke of Port land made the oath which the person who took this office -was to take—that the Duke knew that the oath was broken every day—that the Duke of Portland got 20 or 30,0001. a-year by selling these places. That was the substance of all that passed on that subjea at that interview. That afterwards, the witness, Mr. Hesse, called on the Defendants, Poll mann and Keylock, at their office, when Pollmann said to Mr. Hesse, he was to attend for the purpose of receiving instruaions, saying he should have his office very soon, and on turning over his papers, Pollmann said he found a card as follows—" Poll mann and Keylock, Crown -court, Threadneedle street ;" on the back of which card was written—, "" Little Water Wood-Farm-office, Cannon-street, 2 months, C. W. I. Lan. W. Tower -street, W. 3 \V.—This was to express the meaning of the duty of•rectiving instruaion, which was attached to the office which Mr. Hesse was to fill, and which these Defendants, Pollmann and Keylock, explain ed, by informing Mr. Hesse that his period of in struaion to make himself fit for the business would be four months ; but that for a few dinners he would be excused and reported tit in two weeks, &c. Mr. Hesse thee pressed the Defendants for his appointment, or a return of his money, and at last discovered that he Was completely deceived, there being no intention that he should have either; but they amused him with stories aboat temporary.diffi ' cuities brought in the nay of these'appointtnents by the motion of Mr. Wardle on the case of Mrs. Clarke in the House of Commons ; that, they said, was all nothing, and would, blow over again. But 'afterwards, when this prosecution was instituted, this sum of mone); the 20001. was repaid to Mr. Hesse. This witness was corroborated-in every respeEt by Mr. Hervey,' who accompanied him in the whole",of the proceeding. He proved - that Pollmann said,' in the hearing of Keylock, that the oath which Mr. 'Hesse was to take was a little Temporary oath ; that he did not mind it—he had taken 40 oaths in a day ; that Mr. Hesse might safely take the oath, that he did not purchase his place, because' lie only -pur chased the interest that procured it; and that he did not. pay tot it, because his friend paid for it for him. It then appeared that Mr. Hes'se first went to these Defendants with a view of pur•cbasing the office in question;thinkinalt legal; but finding it otherwise, pursued the subject with a view to, prosecution. Such was the outline of the case. • Mr. ESPINASSE was Counsel for the Defendant, Pollmann; for whom he had nothing to urge, ex. 7 cept that the offence imputed to him was not an of fence at common law. Lord ELLENEOTIOUGH. said, it was a point to be urged in arrest of judgment hereafter; if these was any thing in it ; but that was decided by the pro f vision of a statute, by which the a& was made a mis demeanour. The COMMON-SERJEANT, who bad cross-exa mined Mr. Huse severely, addressed the Jury for the defendant Keylock, and 'called respectable iner chanis to give him a good character. Mr. DALLAS Made an able speech for Mr. Wat ' son,' the banker ; when Lord - ELLENBOROUGH said that the defendant was emu led to nis acquittal on the face of these pleadings, And he was acqnitted accordingly. Mr. GASELEE maintained, on behalf of Mrs. Har vey, tine evidence did not fix her with guilt in these I ransadions. Ttte ATTORNEY-GENERAL made an able reply on, behalf of the prosecution. Lord ELLENBoitopcti delivered a charge to, the Jury, by which they were direated, most clearly, to the most prominent points for their consideration. After which the Jury said, they had no particle of doubt on this question and found the Defendants, Francis Lewis Pollmann, John Keylock, and Sarah Harvey—Guilty. - The trial lasted the whole day, and. the Hall was thronged for the whole time. JULY 13. STIRLING V. HUDSON. This was., an action, in which Admiral Stirling was the Plaintiff, upon a policy of insurance on the ship Princessa, to recover the sum of 4471. los.— Admiral Murray, and several other•witnesses, were called to prove the ship seaworthy. It had been taken at Monte Video, and was on its way to Eng land.with aluantity of bark, when it sprung a leak, and was deserted at sea. An exception was taken, On the part of the Defendant; upon a question, Whether the prize -agent had, been properly ap pointed? • Lord ELLE;4IBOROUGH was of opinion that the transaetion was pertedly correct ; and the Jury returned their verdiCt for •the Plaintiff, 4471. los. leav,ing the point of law, open for further diicus slot]. • STIRLING V. HENCKELL. This gtion was upon a policy of the same ship, by Admiral -Stirling, against another underwriter. The defence set up was, that the, ship, being de serted at sea, this a&ion being upon an insurance on the cargo, the abandonment could not -be con sidered as coming, within the words of the p o li cy . A similar question, of law was also urged to that in the former case. The Jury, leaving the same question open, re turned their verdict for the Plaintiff, e t 61. los. PARKER . V.' TH E EAST INDIA COMPANY. This adion .was against the East India Company, for a breach of contra&. Mr. PARK, for the Plaintiff, stated, that in the year 1800 4 . apprehensions being entertained in this country of a scarcity, the East India Company ad vertised, as an inducement to ship-owners to bring home cargoes of rice, that they would guarantee . their sale at 325. per hundred weight, and published advertisements to-this etre& in India, extending the guarantee to all importations which should arrive in England prior to the 3oth Decemuer, 1801.. The rice imported by . Defendant did not reach England till 1802 ; but the Plaintiffcadtended that the agree ment ought to include this cargo, as its papers were not made up till too late a period, by the Company's servants, to render it possible for the ship to arrive within the given time, and that her stay had been protraded by a negociation on this subje& with the managing officers in India. Upon a question by Lord ELLENBOROUGH, it ap peared that no express deed had been entered into,' and the Plaintiff was nonsuited. SPANISH WOOL. RANDALL V. YARBERAT. This was an a&ion upon bills of exchange, for 88. for a large quantity of Spanish wool, sold to Defendant in February last. It was stated, that the Defendant did not purchase the wool for his • own use, but upon speculative hopes of its rising in price.- _ He made the purchase on,the 2d of February, and gave his bills at four months, in payment of sixty-five bags ;' forty-nine bags of what are-termed R's, at twenty shillings per pound, and sixteen bags called Fs, at nineteen lings. - He then gave instructions .to Messrs. Brook - and Sims, wool-brokers, to sell them - at an ad vanced price, the superior kind, the It's, at twenty -three shillings, the interior, the F's, at twenty-two, but not to- part with them on these_terms, unless banker's acceptances; at two months, could be pro-_ cared. The wool continued at a very high price for some days; but a purchaser could not be met with: About the 10th of February the market b,ecaine flat, and the last sale, at high prices, was on the 15th ; since then the market has been very dead, scarcely anything having been done up to the present-time; only one sale having taken place for three months, when, otit of one thousand bags, there had been but ten or twelve sold, and those ai very reduced prices. The Defendant; finding his speculCon likely to turn out bad, as alleged on the part of the : Plaintiff, complained that the wool did tint answer the sample, and refused payment. A minaber• of. 'witnesses were'called to substantiate the regularity of the original ContraCt; • and several for the Defend .ant, to .prove that the wool did.not correspond •With . the sample. Lord EI:LiNBOR - OUGH summed up the evidence, And 41teiJory, after a few minutes' consideration, re .turned their verdi& for the Plaintiff, 12,9761. Bs. MR. PITT'S MONLIMENiI The Monument to be ereaed - in the Guildhall of London, is in a state of great forwardness. This exquisite piece of sculptUre is the PrLduetion of Mr. J. G. -Bubb, 'of • Grafton -street, Fitzroy-square. The massy substance on which the figures in this compoSition are placed, is intended to represent the, _Wand of Great Britain,and the surroundin g waves . On an elevation, •in t h e centre of the island, Mr. Pitt appears in his robes, 'as Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in the attitude of a Senatorial Orator.' . At the wings, on the intermediate fore-ground, two erect statues . charaaerize his abilities; witk national 'energy, which is embodied, and riding on a symbol of the ocean in the lower centre, they assist to de scribe, the tteets .of his administration. Minervci is on his right, overcoming anarchy, there by securing internal repose to the country. Mer cury is on the left, as the representative of'Commeece and the patron of policy. To describe the unprL..- cedented spletalottr of success which crowned the British Navy, while. Mr. Pitt was Minister, the lower par( of. the monument is occupied by a statue of Britannia, seated triunlpharitly on a sea-horsey. in _her ,left hand is the usual . emblem of naval power, and her right grasps a thunderbolt, whi c h . she is prepared to hurl at the enemies of our coun try. As the place as s ig ne d . in guildhall, f or the Mo .. . 4 numem-of Mr. Pitt is- imm e di ate l y oppos i te to that . erected to tife memory of the illustrious Lord' Chat ham, the artist, has taken care so to. construel The' pedestal, mouldings,. breadth, elevation, and archi- feCtural parts of his design, that, in the points of , dimension and outline, it may serve as a companion to the monument already executed to the'father of the illUstrious William Pitt. A. Gentleman of Lloyd's Coffee-house has under taken to go 1000 miles in 1000 hours, the same as Capt. BARCLAY. 'He being a heavy man, the betting is six to four against him. . - Between six and seven o'clock on Wednesday eren-• ing a young man, a fifer; went in; o the Maidenhead; in George -street, late Dyot-;;treet, St. Giles's, in company _with an idle Woman ofthe name of Brown. After they had been•some• time 'in co:UPany * , the young man missed 4s. and tlis fire.; Net era} violently abusive Words ensued, which were 'followed by blows; a man orthe name of Dillon, who took the. woman's part, obtained possessi o n of the lifer's re gulation sword,, with - which the young non -- was • wounded So dreadfully, that but little hopes, are enter tained of his recovery. He was carried in a most de plorable state to Middlesex-Hospital.' • The woman, Sarah Brown, and a man of. _the name 'of John Horagan, who were supposed to be acCesaries, were taken into custody, and hid•a hearing yesterdar Marlborough-street : Police Office; but were _ordered for re-examination, when Dillon shall be apprehend-. • ed, and further evidence brought forward. Thursday morning, as three men in the employ of Mr..Hoplins, the soap-boiler,fin Barbican, were . clean ing out a cess-pool, into which the_spent lees had been emptied, they were overcome with-the noxious effluvia,, and fell, apparently lifeless.--A poor -car man, a perfea stranger, hearing the cry, " will no one go down to save the men . 1 " volunteered his services. A rope was-put round 'his body,• And he ing let down, he seized•oneAd the sutli..rors," and they were both dragged' tip toether ; but, we re gret to state L 'that this poor generous fellow is like ly to fall a victim to his humanity„fOr he not only suffered from the efilovia,. but was severely injured by ' the rope. They were all carried to 1:131-th0lO mew's Hospital, two of them without any hopes of , recovery. • SHIP NEWS, CR AVELEND, JULY 13. Arrived—the Grand Turk; Asjcic, rrorn New-York.. SallAt' the Newland, - Hunter, for Quebec ; Britannia, Sewell, for•Trinidada ;- Norfolk, Seward, and the Caletionia, Dickkon, for Virginia. . , . - . BIR7 118. -- On Thursday, at Bristol, the lady of Levi Antes, it . . Esq. ot a Son. Yesterday, Mrs.l-lill, of Trinity.square, of a Scn. 11141M11:1). • On Saturday the ist inst. in London,, Joseph, oido3t of John Usher, Esq. of Seend, Wilts, to Fanny, youNtzt, daughter of the late Henry Wise, of Caldii:ot, Mon mouth. On Thursday•last,at Melts, Mr. loini Sinkin, of froame,, Draper, to Miss Mary Nen'', eldest daughter of josepit Nett'', Esq. of Melts, Somerset.